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John Everett Triplett, 66, was killed in the crash, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.

The accident slowed traffic on the busy roadway as FHP troopers investigated the crash and as tow truck operators worked to remove the mangled vehicles.

Troopers said Triplett, who was driving a pickup truck, was heading north on County Road 464B and was in the process of crossing U.S. 27. Meanwhile, a woman driving a second pickup truck, described as a 1997 Dodge, was traveling in the far right lane heading north on U.S. 27.

Officials said the two vehicles collided and both trucks overturned, finally coming to rest on the northwest shoulder of U.S. 27.

Triplett was pronounced dead at the scene by Marion County Fire Rescue officials. He had to be extricated from his truck.

The injured woman, Cindy Jeanette Joiner, 38, of Morriston, was taken to Ocala Regional Medical Center, according to FHP. Joiner was wearing her seat belt.

Video surveillance from a BP gas station across the street from the scene showed the first pickup crossing U.S. 27 when the Dodge suddenly appears and collides with it.

The second truck seems to climb atop the first one. Then the video shows the two vehicles moving from the point of impact in a cloud of smoke to the grassy median.

An employee at the gas station told the Star-Banner that she was looking out the window and saw the accident. She said she told the other employees who were in the store with her and she went outside, where she saw a bunch of people making their way to the crash scene.

The employee said those people began calling 911.

The traffic death was the 16th for 2013 in Marion County and the fifth fatality since last Thursday. Of those five, four were in the county and one in the city. Three of the victims were riding in vehicles, one was riding a motorized bicycle and the other was a pedestrian.

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